Saturday, April 9, 2011

Ajdabiya advancing rebels but is now a nearly empty city

Benghazi (Libya) .- The rebels said today they have managed to contain the advance of gadafistas on Ajdabiya, strategic communications hub of eastern DRC, which was bombed on Thursday with heavy artillery by the troops of the regime, sources told EFE the insurgent leadership. However, the strategic city, 160 kilometers southwest of Benghazi, is almost empty of civilians after its inhabitants abandon in haste yesterday, hospital sources told Efe its main hospital said that the bombing caused tens injured.

The heavy artillery bombed Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday Ajdabiya several areas of the road that connects with Brega, mainly with Grad missiles, which have a maximum range of close to 40 miles. Witnesses at the hospital Ajdabiya EFE reported that loud explosions were heard near the health center and other areas of the city, the regime's troops were 15 kilometers.

Doctors at the hospital they urged people to quickly leave the place, while the few inhabitants who remained in the city, about 25 percent of its population, began in a hurry to leave towards Benghazi. Hundreds of cars once inhabited the 160-kilometer road linking the rebel capital Ajdabiya, where the tension and anger against NATO for not attacking especially the supply lines gadafistas troops are increasing day by day.

Although the rebels said today they had managed to contain the spread of Gaddafi and bring back some miles to Brega, the truth is that in the rebel stronghold this morning growing fear that the regime in Tripoli Ajdabiya taking back end, as happened recently before the start of the Allied intervention in Libya.

Ajdabiya is a major communications hub in the east, and a road connecting with the other in Benghazi and Tobruk, so that its control would gadafistas back to try to isolate the rebel stronghold of his connection to the outside through Egypt. The people of Libya's second city continue to wonder what has changed in allied operations since NATO took command on 31 March.

The Libyans in the east of the country complain that since the alliance directs operations at the expense of the U.S. and France have significantly reduced the Allied air attacks, which has allowed gadafistas move eastward.

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